The Farm

Some of the sheep raisers of Australia own over 500,000 head of sheep. To make good solder for copper use ten parts of copper and nine parta of zinc. Ohio grape growers aregetting somevvhat discouraged owing to the prevalence of the rot. Constant cutting ofï just below the surface of the ground will in time eradicate poison ivy. Clover that sends its roots deep into the earth is considered the best subsoiling agent to be had. The gross income derived f rom tobáceo by the farmers of the United States is about $22,000,000. Southern farmers have improved their methods of agriculture very decidedly in the last ten years. llie Mermo sheep will produce a liirger proportion of grease to wool than any olher breed of sheep. Many a farmer pays out large sums for fertilizers, while he allows those of his own barn-yard to run to wnste. One-half ounce of salt to the pound of butter is tlie rule of salting adapted by the makers of the celebrated butter which sells at a fancy price in Boston. St. Louis packers bought sorghum syrup by the car load for this scason's meat curing. James Stanley, of TValdo, Oregon, owned a drove of fat hogs. Lately a grizzly bear got among them and killed thirty in an hour. Mr. G. J. Cooper, of Chicago, is reported to have recently purchased 30,000 acres of Northern Pacific railroad lands in Dakota. He located about thirty miles west from Fargo, and will break 5,000 acres this year. Cattle are reported as starving to death by the thousands on the plains, and in Colorado, the ground being covered with snow, and men who had supposed themselves rich in the number of their cattle, are being bankrupted. Mr. Edwin ÏTelson, Sutton, N. H. claims to have raised 115 bushels of whelled corn per acre from seed of "a mixed variety, namely, Canada, Davis and KingPhillip, grown in that vicinity several years;" and Mr. F. B. Maxim, of Wayne, Me., 221 dry shelled bushels on two acres. Keep a supply of water in your poultry house. You will flnd your fowls benefited if you supply them their water in au iron vessel, or if such is not convenient, keep a supply of old iron in the drinking troughs. The vessel must be kept clean, and fresh water supplied daily, After an experience of several seasons, we have adopted the system of warming f ood f or our fowls all through the cold weather, both morning and evening, and we attribute the excellent laying qualities of our hens, in a great measure, to this custom. The food whether whole or broken, dry or moistenod, should bewarmed before feeding. Soine farmers make a practice of parehïng their grain, and are assured of its jeneficial results.-